14 DWAEF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



appearance, and are easily confused. They are further 

 confused by being nearly all called " var. ericoides/' on 

 account of their heath-like appearance. In some cases 

 there is a second juvenile " state " in which the plant 

 seems to have made an effort to change its juvenile for 

 adult foliage, and not quite succeeded. This second, or 

 intermediate state, in some cases approaches nearer to the 

 normal adult foliage, and in others remains nearer to the 

 original juvenile. One may more readily distinguish 

 some of these forms from each other if the following points 

 of difference be noted : 



Thuya occidentalis, var. ericoides. — Juvenile form with 

 heath-like foliage leaves borne in opposite pairs, some with 

 tips incurved, ascending at a narrow angle to stem and 

 rather far apart. Yellow-green in summer, dirty brown 

 in winter; branchlets fine and inclined to " flop." 



T. occidentalis, var. Watereri. — Similar in most respects 

 to var. ericoides, but foliage and branchlets much smaller 

 and finer, branchlets so fine as to cause many of them to 

 ascend in spirals. 



T. orientalis, var. juniperoides. — Juvenile foliage of a 

 glaucous blue-grey or green. Leaves borne in opposite 

 pairs, but closer together, and often at right angles, and 

 inclined to recurve ; branchlets more crowded and making 

 a denser, rounder shrub, with many upright branches. 

 Habit decidedly stiffer. 



T. orientalis, var. rosedalis compacta. — Even denser and 

 finer, making an upright broadly spherical shrub ; foliage 

 glaucous blue in summer, purple-brown in winter. Borne 

 in twos. 



Cupressus sphceroidea,va,T. ericoides. — Similar foliage, but 

 shorter, wider, and rather stiffer; borne in twos or threes 

 and much closer together. Mostly at right angles or with 

 tips decurved. Habit stiffer and erect; branches not so 

 ascending — many nearly horizontal. Colour glaucous 

 green in summer, red to violet-brown in winter. 



C. NutkoensiSy var. ericoides. — Leaves still stiffer with 



